Wednesday, May 2, 2007

I found out today that I have a shot at getting into Joe Thornton's lab. If it works out I would probably be working on phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral gene sequences. It seems really interesting and it could turn into a really valuable experience for me; possibly even a foot in the door to get into one of the more exciting grad schools I hope to go to one day. In any case I practiced reaching out to someone who is a leader in the field of computational biology which is exactly what I need to keep doing to succeed.

About Me

I am currently an graduate student in the field of computational genomics at the University of California Santa Cruz. I am currently working in Dr. Ed Green's lab on the American Alligator genome, and using comparitive transcriptomics to discover which genes are first triggered by temperature to determine whether the developing alligator embryo ends up male or female.